4 commentsFathers quietly bring home the burdens and responsibilities of their work, which their children often notice in his tired eyes or a heavy sigh. For local author Mark Saunders, that boyhood curiosity...

0 commentsPeter Hatch is all over the place this month. He's in Washington to help First Lady Michelle Obama plant the White House vegetable garden, he's in San Francisco for a Gardening Conservancy symposium...

37 commentsGlioma is the most common and deadly kind of brain cancer. Each year, 10,000 Americans are diagnosed, and only half survive beyond a year. Only a quarter after two years. But research at the...

15 commentsBy Brittany Gamble
It’s 11am, and Tihana Macakanja has just spent two and a half hours hooked to a machine; and even after the procedure ends, she's facing a 15-minute drive home. It's an arduous...

3 commentsAfter more than a generation as the unofficial ambassador of Nelson County, Russ Simpson suddenly finds himself unrecognizable. The proprietor of a popular roadside stand along U.S. 29 has recently...

0 commentsDon’t worry, nobody’s abandoning the one-car shelter on 1st Street that also happens to be the most charming outdoor music space in Charlottesville. Hill and Wood main-mover Sam Bush is still there...

0 commentsIf Caroline Preston had a time machine, she'd take it back to the 1920s. Instead, the Charlottesville author has brought the 1920s to today by channelling a lifelong collecting habit into a new book...

5 commentsHarry de Leyer can fly. Photos of him soaring over seven-foot jumps atop champion steeds line the walls of his trophy-filled farmhouse in Dyke. A painting of him over the fireplace depicts that same...

16 commentsRodney Thomas is mad. It's one day after a prominent blogger has accused the Albemarle supervisor of agreeing to "grease the skids" for the construction of the Western U.S. 29 bypass by limiting...

0 commentsYou've tossed dull corporate newsletters straight in the trash, so why read the one from the yard maintenance company? How about dramatic candor of "The Ooops Issue"?
"In May of '96, if you were...

0 commentsHistory buffs have long been skeptical of some of the tales told by English settler Captain John Smith, but few know the Native American perspective on this crucial time in America's history. A book...

0 commentsJohn Milliken Thompson admits with a laugh that he writes “mainly coffee-table books,” including several titles for National Geographic. But now the Charlottesville author has just come out with a...

3 commentsWhen Jeroen Koeman says he's the Tulip Man, the Madison County resident is just stating a fact. He comes from a line of tulip growers in Holland, where six of his father's eight brothers grow the...

0 commentsGender-bending in literature is more than a common convention; some of fiction's greatest works are written in a voice of the author's opposite sex. UVA MFA graduate (2003) and Charlottesville...

0 commentsAlmost everyone wants to write a novel. For those who don't want their manuscripts to languish in attics and hard drives, novelist John McNally wrote The Creative Writer's Survival Guide.
The author...

2 comments"Iranians are good at keeping secrets," says Iranian author Jazmin Darznik, wryly alluding perhaps to our common perceptions of the Islamic Republic, while she characterizes the theme of her recently...

7 commentsEmily Gee made sure the famous British crosswalk got protected.
PHOTO BY HAWES SPENCER
We say zee-bra, she says zeb-ra. Actually, we say crosswalk, and the one iconically depicted on the cover the...

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Kathy ErskinePHOTO BY JEN FARIELLO
Kathryn Erskine has one of those annoying license plates that you can't ignore until you figure it out: MN8U4EA. It says a lot about her in an erudite, pay-it-...

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Bill ReifenbergerPHOTO BY JEN FARIELLO
Sometimes, you just don't want to drive the big production van in DC traffic anymore. For Bill Reifenberger, that was a defining moment, when he went from...

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Jamelle BouiePHOTO BY JEN FARIELLO
If your reading leans to the left, you might be familiar with nationally-known bloggers Matt Yglesias, Ezra Klein, and Kate Sheppard who each got started at "...

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Mike JohnsonPHOTO BY LISA PROVENCE
When Mike Johnson, 52, goes south of the border, he's not heading to Club Med. Johnson opts for accommodations in a Spanish language immersion program or in people...

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Mike JohnsonPHOTO BY LISA PROVENCE
When Mike Johnson, 52, goes south of the border, he's not heading to Club Med. Johnson opts for accommodations in a Spanish language immersion program or in people...

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Katrina PowellPHOTO COURTESY KATRINA POWELL
Many of the million or so annual visitors to Shenandoah National Park have no idea of its pre-park life, when it was home to around 500 families who were...

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His best work may have been focused on sports, but author and New York Times journalist Warren St. John is not a sports junkie. On the contrary, his two best-selling books focus...

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Todd KoymPHOTO BY JEN FARIELLO
As with fishermen, avid bird-watchers know the biggest challenge is finding the good spots. That realization led Charlottesville resident Todd Koym to develop BirdsEye...